Posted on 02/14/2024 7:46:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
People often ask how illegal aliens can afford to pay for their journeys. Much of the funding comes from predictable sources: Relatives in the United States may send the money, the migrant may borrow it or even indenture himself to smuggling gangs and work off the debt once here.
But a lot of the money comes from the American taxpayer.
At every stage of a migrant’s journey, U.S. tax money smooths the way for people planning to enter and live in the United States illegally.
Start with the United Nations. The United States gave all the U.N. agencies $18 billion in 2022, representing about one-third of the total budget. The U.N. does many different things with that money, but one thing is to help wannabe border-jumpers actually make it to the border.
An investigation by the Center for Immigration Studies has revealed that U.N. agencies have budgeted $372 million for 2024 to help 624,000 migrants heading north to cross illegally into the United States. These migrants “in transit” will be supported with money, transportation, food, shelter, legal advice and more to ensure they’re able to get to the Rio Grande.
Once the illegal aliens cross the border, they turn themselves in to the Border Patrol, which is obviously totally funded by our taxes. Law enforcement is an essential function of government, and few people begrudge the taxes we have to pay for that protection.
But now, the taxpayer-funded Border Patrol is no longer doing much law enforcement — it’s been turned into a vast, green-uniformed Welcome Wagon. Since President Biden took office, more than 3 million undocumented aliens have been “processed” by the Border Patrol and released into the United States.
Once you’ve paid to have the immigrants “processed” and released, they then have to make their way to the relatives or friends they’re going to join. While much of the money for the bus or plane tickets comes from the aliens’ families or a genuine charity, the taxpayers provide some of it whether you like it or not.
For one group of immigrants, all the transportation costs are borne by the taxpayer. Unaccompanied minors (who frequently are neither minors nor really unaccompanied) have totaled nearly half a million on Biden’s watch, and they are delivered to their “sponsors” (often their undocumented alien parents who paid to have them smuggled in the first place) by the U.S. government.
This is so egregious that one federal judge has angrily noted that the Department of Homeland Security was “successfully completing the mission of the criminal (smuggling) conspiracy.” On your dime.
But you help pay for adult undocumented aliens to get to their destinations, too. The Federal Emergency Management Agency oversees Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which was started 40 years ago to give money to non-profit groups to help homeless veterans and others. The original purpose of this program has been swallowed up by a new mission — assisting undocumented border-crossers with transportation and basic needs. In 2023, $425 million in your money was budgeted for that task.
And then, when the aliens reach their destinations, you’re still paying. New York City expects to shell out up to $12 billion through next year to support them, and Chicago and other cities face similar challenges. And since states often help pay for municipal budgets, people in Upstate New York and Downstate Illinois will also pay.
If you don’t live in one of those places, you’re still not off the hook. The border bill being negotiated in the Senate, whatever its other strengths and weaknesses, includes a federal bailout for New York and other sanctuary cities struggling with the costs of our border policies.
Whether the money comes directly from the federal treasury or is directed through the United Nations or various non-profit groups, your tax money is helping underwrite the border crisis. There’s a long list of things that need to be done to regain control after three years of chaos, but high up on that list is to stop paying to make it worse.
Reprinted with permission from The DC Journal by Mark Krikorian.
I think the first goal will be to flip Texas from Blue to Red.
We’re already red.
I’d like to know on which side of the river they are dumping all of the used and loaded Huggies. The border has to be an ecological catastrophe and we haven’t heard a peep out of Kerry, Algore and their envirowacko idiot, traffic-blocking blowhards.
Amazing all the ‘problems’ that would *magically* go away via just following the Const. & upholding everyone’s Rights
- Defend the border
- Elim. the illegal welfare state
- Return SERVICES to be paid by the user upon rendering
Just those 3 things would eliminate much in this arena just itself.
And let’s not forget our Catholic brothers and sisters who are out in force - 24/7/365 to assist the mostly military age testosterone fueled male “migrantes”.
(Meanwhile, a Nicaraguan Jesuit family friend cowers in México, assured that he will be shot on sight if he returns to Managua.)
The most common ways that illegals fund their journey
Remittances from relatives in the US (illegally). They are mostly on welfare so you are the actually paying for it.
US aid money paid directly to NGOs or laundered through US funds given to the United Nations
Participating in illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, human trafficking, prostitution or other criminal gang related activity
They are infiltrated into the US as agents of governments and terrorist organizations hostile to America
We are going to regret this in the very near future
WE KNOW THAT. It's not like the gubment is a business earning a profit from stuff they sell.
Well...not including the Bidens, I guess.
Can I ask to have myself brought up on federal charges for my part on this conspiracy? Really. A legal case could be made with very detailed and absolute proof of my financial connections. A similar case can be made against the government for funding a massive RICO conspiracy.
"Who’s Funding Illegal Immigration? You Are."
First, the bottom line...
Consider that political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because it is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Getting back to alleged taxpayer funding of illegal immigration, consider that such spending, along with a bunch of other likewise unconstitutional (imo) federal spending, are examples of the corrupt federal government's abuse of its 16th Amendment (16A; direct taxes) powers imo.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattetive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government oppressing everybody under its boots...
Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to support hopeful Trump 47 by immediately primarying ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers and executives up for reelection, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company (and others?), replacing them with a new patriot lawmakers that will do the work below.
New lawmakers need to support Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, effectively "seceding" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing so, by repealing not only 16A, but also the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A; popular voting for federal senators).
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the unconstitutionally big federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
In fact, consider that one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers imo).
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the worst problem that the peacetime country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of Trump-supporting freshman lawmakers is this imo. Citizens would probably get into the habit of lightheartedly questioning if the federal government has shutdown if they receive their mail a few days late.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find legislative remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
Again, consider that corrupt political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
“includes a federal bailout for New York and other sanctuary cities”
Oh Lord! I didn’t know that!
NOT mentioned is the deep role the sponsoring “religious charities” play in paying for and organizing the “asylum group enabling societies” on both sides of the smuggling industry.
Thus, various Catholic Charities by the dozens spend money for moving and training these illegal aliens in “how to apply for asylum” so they get all the paperwork and forms and “say the right things” once in the Border Patrol hands. (Say the right key and tricky phrase, you get the handouts. Say the wrong phrase, you get on the “naughty boy list” and get on the deportation list. You’re not deported yet, but put on that lkist and get fewer goodies from Uncle Joe. )
Today’s “catholic bishops” only see “seats in the pew”
When are all the gorgeous Ukraine women illegals going to get here. I am going to volunteer my talents.......
organ pipe national park was a complete dump like a decade ago from all the litter of crossers.
Lots of bodies buried out there these days. Bodies and loaded Huggies everywhere.
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